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You're reading from Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5 Leverage the power of vSphere for effective virtualization, administration, management and monitoring of data centers

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787286016

Length 598 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Networking

Authors (3):

Andrea Mauro

Paolo Valsecchi

Karel Novak

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite FREE CHAPTER

2. Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure

3. Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment

4. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation

5. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5

6. Advanced Network Management

7. Advanced Storage Management

8. Advanced VM and Resource Management

9. Monitoring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting

10. Securing and Protecting Your Environment

11. Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading

12. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

13. Advanced Availability in vSphere 6.5

14. Data and Workloads Protection

Introduction to NSX

In the last part of this chapter, we will be describing NSX technologies. This SDN part and SDDC concepts are very important for the complete path to the SDDC solution. VMware NSX is a network virtualization platform.

NSX is possible to use very fast because it is used with all vendors (physical networking) and only must be possible with a MTU set as 1,600 and higher for transport network. NSX network hypervisor reproduces a complete set of L2–L7 network services as a logical switching, routing, firewall, and load balancing in software.

NSX components

NSX architecture has three different layers—management plane, control plane, and data plane.

Management plane

The management plane is represented by the NSX Manager, a single component deployed as a virtual appliance starting from an OVA file. NSX Manager is a single point of configuration gateway for REST API. NSX Manager relationship is 1:1 with the vCenter server. NSX Manager provides the plugin for the vCenter Web UI. NSX...